Hopperesque

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Steinbeck

photo dorothy lange

Although John Steinbeck never wrote anything remotely Hardboiled, in the way that Hemingway produced The Killers, and arguably other pieces, he certainly dabbled in a dark poetic type of Dirty Realist writing before it actually existed.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow than can't talk.
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Death was a friend, and sleep was death's brother.

Hardboiled/Noir

'It was one of those hot dry Santa Annas that come down thru the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. ............ Red Wind- Raymond Chandler